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The government does not have rights. In the United States the power resides in the individual citizens. The "government" are individual citizens selected to do
by Grakel 5y ago
The government does not have rights. In the United States the power resides in the individual citizens. The "government" are individual citizens selected to do the paperwork. When their corruption exceeds our disinterest, they're done.
- zaptrem 5y agoAnd yet the majority of those citizens agree with vaccine mandates among other public health measures https://news.uchicago.edu/story/most-americans-support-vaccine-mandates-certain-public-spaces-survey-finds https://news.uchicago.edu/story/most-americans-support-vacci... It’s almost like the government is still fulfilling the will of the people!
- SamPatt 5y agoThe government is not meant to be majority rule. It was explicitly created to prevent majority rule. The Senate acted as a longer term, more stable body to counteract the more popularist House. Originally citizens didn't even vote for Senators, they were appointed by the states themselves. An entire set of explicit rules restrained what the majority could do (Constitution and Bill of Rights). Majority rule has a long history of abuses. We shouldn't abandon our system of limiting majority power because of a virus.
- zaptrem 5y agolemmie guess... “America isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-constitution-democracy/616949/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti... “The government wasn’t meant to fulfill the will of the people... it was meant to fulfill the will of my people!” Minority rule has a much longer and more gruesome history of abuses, and it never ends well for the rulers.
- Grakel 5y agoWhat a straw man argument in that article. "not a democracy" simply refers to avoiding decisions based on the public opinion that sways in the wind, sometimes dramatically. See vaccine and mask mandates.
- sjg007 5y agoUmm.. this is why we need civics classes because people Don’t actually understand what the purpose of government is and what we rights we give up to be governed.
- Grakel 5y agoWe do need much better civics and history classes. We don't "give up rights," and we're not "governed" in this country. Look at the wording of the bill of rights. It's a list of limits on the government.
- sjg007 5y agoI think the Supreme Court disagrees with you. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/government-can-restrict-your-liberty-to-protect-public-health-courts-have-made-that-clear https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/government-...